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A FINE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE STEMBOWL, DOU

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A FINE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE STEMBOWL, DOU
XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK BELOW THE RIM AND OF THE PERIOD

The globular bowl with inverted mouth resting on a high, widely splayed foot, painted in deep blue tones with a band of tiger lilies between lotus petals and a half-diaper band at the mouth around the body, and with pendent lotus petals encircled by dots at the base of the foot, with some 'heaped and piled' effects,
4 1/8in. (10.4cm.) high, box
Provenance
Edward T. Chow, sold in Hong Kong, 25 November 1980, lot 2

Lot Essay

A covered example is illustrated in Mayuyama Seventy Years, vol. I, no. 773; and another in the Freer Gallery of Art is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, vol. 9, pl. 101. A further dou and cover in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, pl. 68. See also the example in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, Blue and White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book II, pl. 13; the Percival David Foundation stembowl, Catalogue, Section 3, pl. X, no. 636; and D'Argence, Chinese Ceramics in the Avery Brundage Collection, pl. Lb. An example from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is illustrated in the Catalogue, pl. 219. Another in the British Museum is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 5, fig. 165.

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